Political Participation in Rural India: A Village Level Study

Vani Borooah and Anirudh Tagat ()

A chapter in State, Institutions and Democracy, 2017, pp 159-191 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract If countries have a ‘unique selling point’ then India’s must surely be that, with over 700 million voters, it is the world’s largest democracy. Allied to this is the enthusiasm with which Indians have embraced the electoral process. The turnout in Indian national elections has been over 62 % in 10 of the last 15 national elections with 66 % of eligible voters voting the 2014 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) elections; the last time that a US Presidential election came close to matching this was the 60 % turnout in the 1968 election between Nixon and Humphrey.

Keywords: Gramsabha (GS); Sabha Meetings; Vote Bank; Expressive Voting; Agricultural Wage Labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44582-3_7

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